Day 2, Part 2: I Doubt It’s Going to Rain Today…

Feb 17

After mom finished up with breakfast, we ran back downstairs for her to get her Florida clothes from her luggage so she could change.

She got changed quickly, and sunblocked, and soon we were on our next adventure for the day: heading to the Magic Kingdom!!

Now, this day there was only like a 15% chance of rain, so when mom asked if we should bring umbrellas, I confidently said absolutely not, it’s not going to rain!

Well, let’s face it, Florida is going to Florida. No matter what the chances are of rain, it could rain.

So of course as we were just getting to Magic Kingdom it started to drizzle. Oops!

Fortunately, the drizzle stopped soon after, so not a big deal.

Once we got to the MK, we headed to guest services to activate my mom’s new Annual Pass (AP). There was a bit of a line, but it moved quickly, and soon enough hers was activated!

We then made our way into the park, and first bonus of being an AP, all the lines at the tapstiles were pretty long, except the AP line, so we headed over there and were in the park in no time!

Our first stop this morning was the train station! My mom had been wanting to ride the train for the past few years but we’ve never had time, or the train wasn’t running, so we made a point to ride it first this trip.

We just missed a train when we got there, but the wait for the next one wasn’t too bad.

We decided to ride the full loop around the park.

Once we were back at the Main Street station, we got off and headed onto Main Street.

We decided to pop into the Emporium to see if there was any merch we wanted. I found a puzzle I loved, so I made a mental note to come back for it later. I also found a sweater I liked.

Next we headed across the street to the glass place where I checked out the AP glass I wanted to get, but since we had plans to ride some rides we opted to not purchase yet.

Since we were right by the silhouette place at that point, I decided I really wanted to stop to finally get one of my dog! I had been wanted to get this for years, but either there has always been a crazy line, or the artist had gone on a break, so today when I saw there was only one group ahead of us, I decided now was the time!

It did take a while for the group ahead of us since they had four kids to do the silhouettes of.

As we were waiting, I noticed Paging Mr. Morrow on the other side of the street doing his vlogging, so I pointed him out to my mom since she loves him. She was so excited to see him, so decided to run over to say hi to him. I wish I could have too, but I didn’t want to lose our place in line, and it looked like the artist was almost done with the family in front of us.

My mom said she had a great interaction with Paging Mr. Morrow, he was very nice and chatted with her for a while. I wish I could have gone over and gotten a picture of the two of them!

Once mom came back to the line, the artist was still working on the family ahead of us, but this couple came up and started hovering on the other side of the booth, so I mentioned to my mom that I bet they’d try to cut the line once the artist got done with the group ahead of us.

Sure enough, the second the artist finished the last kid in front of us, that couple stepped up and shoved a picture in front of the artist to do theirs.

Fortunately, the artist was paying attention and told that couple they were cutting the line.

This artist was AMAZING. Not only for paying attention and not letting that couple cut, but she was so much fun! The entire time she was cutting the silhouette she was joking around with us and telling us stories about some wild things that she’s seen during her time working there, and she had been there for like 20 years at that point so she had seen a LOT!

She also did a great silhouette of my dog, I’m SO happy we got it!